"As
an authentic metaphysical summa and a masterpiece of balance and subtle
nuances, Frithjof Schuon's written opus is the very expression of
his powerful didactic genius. Through its objectivity and its rigor,
it is an answer to the questions raised by contemporary man who finds
himself disarmed in the face of the overwhelming certainties of modern
science and the climate of nihilism that surrounds him.

However, Schuon
is not a bookish metaphysician, like so many others, but he is first
of all an inspired man of prayer, a true sage, and (...) a 'born gnostic'
who tends to fully 'incarnate his archetype' by actualizing all his
inner riches."

"The
man is a living wonder; intellectually à propos religion,
equally in depth and breadth, the paragon of our time. I know of no
living thinker who begins to rival him..." wrote Huston Smith,
of Frithjof Schuon, whose first book, The Transcendent Unity of
Religions, prompted T.S. Eliot to say: "I have met
with no more impressive work in the comparative study of Oriental
and Occidental religions."